A world-class technology company with an international footprint, and a broad product and service offering across a number of sectors, including National Defence and Security agencies to space and transport.
The group ‘innovates to protect’, and aims to make the world a safer place with their high-tech sensors, information, countermeasures and energetics solutions. Their core focus is on engineering excellence, with its 60-year heritage and deep knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber and AI provides technology, engineering and advisory services to Government and high-value engineering companies.
As well as being part of a larger Group, they have a separate stand-alone brand. This is very important in the context of talent attraction and Employee Value Proposition. This business is very much a people business, in that, at its core, it is the expertise of its people that the business is built on. It is also a complex, highly regulated business, with many of the client projects being bound to stringent confidentiality requirements. This creates some challenges when trying to attract the top talent to the organisation.
Purpose of the project
Jarred Consulting’s involvement was twofold:
1) To review the approach to Early Talent assessment, including required competencies and design a process which was fit for purpose, and which would support the business’ growth aspirations
2) To design and delivery a graduate development programme to support early talent throughout their first two years at the firm.
The Client's Feedback
The Jarred team have worked with us for a couple of years, helping us to review our graduate development offering, and then designing a new graduate development programme which enabled our graduates to step into their new roles with confidence. The programme consisted of a series of ‘sprints’ (short bursts of blended learning, action learning sets and supporting resources) which could then be applied to the graduates’ day jobs. There was close liaison with the graduates line managers to ensure that they understood the programme and were able to support appropriately. The Jarred team are excellent partners, their expertise in the learning space, second to none, and their flexible, iterative style really suited our complex business. They took time to get to know our business, our drivers and culture. They elegantly bridged conversations with senior stakeholders and graduates alike. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.
